A document is a free flowing, persistent, self-contained, and unstructured static block of text written by an author to meet a particular objective. The objective could be a report, contract, letter, proposal, or some other content to meet a particular business need. Documents frequently need to include data and content that are contained in different corporate information systems. Most document authors will use corporate applications and other assets to manually seek out the required data, compile it, and then incorporate it into the master document.

Up until now, the two worlds of “document composition” and “application development” have remained disconnected. However, this is going to change. This paper discusses the need for, and practical concepts behind, “transforming a document into an application.”

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